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DRAPER — A brush fire in Draper filled the south end of the Salt Lake Valley with smoke overnight.
Two small fires actually started around 1:30 a.m. at 16600 South and Pony Express Road, just west of I-15.
The wind then pushed them together to create one large fire.
“We had probably three- to four-foot flames moving from north to south that were being pushed by the wind,” said Capt. Tim Robinson of the Lehi Fire Department. “So, it was pretty rapidly moving from north to south.”
The fire burned 30 to 35 acres of tall dry grass and sagebrush. A barn and home were threatened, but those structures are now safe.
Four agencies were called in to fight the blaze; Lehi, Unified Fire, LonePeak and Saratoga Springs.
It took crews about three hours to extinguish it.
An investigation was underway to determine how it started.